Thursday, 25 July 2013

Tried and Tasted!

Welcome to a new page on Cherrapeno, where I taste, test and review some of the products that I get sent.

Oxo Ice Cream Scoops

With the sultry weather upon us, I tried both of these ice cream scoops from Oxo.

Of the two, the trigger
scoop (left) is better for softer ice cream, and gives perfect larger
sized balls of ice cream - it's also great for scooping equal amounts of
cake mixture into cupcake cases for even-sized cupcakes

The beak scoop powers through harder ice cream - you can scrape it straight from the freezer and make smaller balls. It has a 'release' button to push the ice cream off of the scoop. This one was my favourite, it was excellent for getting the ice cream out of the corners of the ice cream containers.

Hotel Chocolat have recently launched a small collection of chocolate gift boxes for special occasions, including two 'new arrival' selections - which would be perfect to give to a new parent, royal or not ;) - and a 'congratulations' message box.

I chose the
'congratulations' box (£8.00), as it was the perfect little graduation
gift to accompany the university photos that I had bought for my son.
There were 8 gorgeous chocolates - billionaire's shortbread, strawberry
cheesecakes, simple milk truffles and - my favourite - dizzy praline.
We all agreed that this was a lovely little extra to the main presents,
and a great small affordable gift to give to other friends that had
also graduated at the same time. I really liked the typography on the
front of the box emblazoned with the word 'CONGRATULATIONS'.

The New York Bakery Co
have just launched their first crowd sourced recipe book, featuring 20
recipes from fans across the UK. The recipe book is absolutely FREE,
just visit their Facebook page for more information.

All the recipes look really
good, I was sent the cinnamon and raisin bagels to try out, so made
versions of the 'Choco Banana', 'Beanut-Panana' and the 'Sweet and
Light'. My favourite one was the 'Choco Banana', delicious on a hot
toasty bagel.